It broke an audience record when it was broadcast two years ago: this phenomenon series is finally making its return to streaming in France.
This week, a phenomenon series will create an event on streaming platforms. After a first season which broke audience records in the United States, the sequel has been eagerly awaited by fans for two years and is finally arriving this week. Get ready, because that’s all we’re going to talk about in the coming days.
Who will win the war, between Rhaenyra and Alicent? This is the whole point of the second season of House of the Dragon, which finally returns after two years of waiting. Remember, the first season of this prequel Game Of Thrones placed the pawns of the chessboard game to explain the total split between the members of the Targaryen family: the eldest daughter of King Viserys whom he called to the throne on one side, and his son Aegon on the other, born from his second marriage to Alicent Hightower.
The first season focused on explaining each other’s resentments, until reaching a point of no return when Aegon takes power by force and his younger brother kills Rhaenyra’s son during a back-to-back confrontation. of dragons. For season 2 which returns in a few days, war is officially declared and the Targaryen family is ready to tear each other apart.
Game Of Thrones was a phenomenon that was difficult to escape during its broadcast from 2011 to 2019. It is therefore no surprise that this spin-off, which tells the story of Daenerys Targaryen’s ancestors, found its core audience won over . And the series succeeded in transforming the test since 9.9 million followed the finale on HBO, the series having achieved an audience record with more than 9 million spectators on its first episode. Alone Game Of Thrones had done better, notably with a season 8 finale attracting 19.3 million spectators, setting the American channel’s historic record in terms of audience, all platforms combined.
The question now is whether this season 2, which promises to accelerate events after the setting up in season 1, will confirm these stratospheric figures. The first episode of season 2 of House of the Dragon can be discovered on the night of June 16 to 17, 2024, on the Max streaming platform. From this date, the broadcast adopts a weekly rhythm, with a new episode to be seen every Monday in France.